Mankenberg
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | May 1, 1885 |
| Seat | Spenglerstraße 99, 23556 Lübeck (Germany) |
| management | Axel Weidner, Stefan Nehlsen |
| Number of employees | 195 Lübeck (2019) |
| sales | EUR 18.6 million (2018) |
| Branch | Fittings manufacturer |
| Website | www.mankenberg.de |
The Mankenberg GmbH is a manufacturer of industrial valves and delivers worldwide in various industries. The company is based in Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein).
The German company produces automatic control valves (pressure and level control) and, in addition to standard products, is a specialist in special designs. Axel Weidner, great-grandson of the company's founder Gustav Mankenberg, and Dr. Stefan Nehlsen run the company together.
history
Company founder Gustav Mankenberg was born on August 12, 1857 in Wittstock an der Dosse as the eighth child of the independent master blacksmith Johann Friedrich Mankenberg and learned the trade of a belt maker in Berlin. By this one understood a craftsman who mastered the molding, casting , turning and other processing of metal objects of all kinds.
On May 1, 1885, he took over the workshop of the brass master Wallen in Heide (Holstein) and founded the company Gustav Mankenberg. Mankenberg quickly recognized the developments in the regional market, switched the range to reducing valves for air and carbon dioxide boilers, air pumps, etc. and also opened a sample and sales warehouse at Hamburg's Rödingsmarkt .
In 1891, due to payment defaults due to the slump in the construction industry, Gustav Mankenberg was forced to bring a partner from Hamburg to Heide: But the collaboration did not succeed. While the building hardware division remained in Heide, Gustav Mankenberg ventured a fresh start in May 1895, 10 years after the company was founded, in the Hanseatic city of Stettin . The convenient location at the mouth of the Oder and the connection to Berlin via the Finow and later the Oder-Havel Canal paid off, as did the demand from factories and shipyards such as the famous Vulcan shipyard
In 1904 Mankenberg had the "Niagara" patented: a condensation pot with a closed, welded steel ball float based on the autogenous welding process, which is still part of the Mankenberg GmbH product range today. The name "Niagara" should indicate the unusually large amounts of water that the new device was able to discharge.
In October 1910, Mankenberg moved to the newly built factory at Stettiner Wiekenberg No. 12 due to increased space requirements. The adjacent properties in Wiekenberg No. 14-17 and Kochstraße 19 with a total of 12,000 square meters were acquired.
On January 1, 1912, Gustav Mankenberg took on his eldest son and long-term employee Ewald Mankenberg as a partner in the company. As an expert in steam, he strengthened the company's advisory skills.
On January 1, 1917, the second son, Hellmuth Mankenberg, who had worked as a technical businessman at home and abroad after extensive practical and theoretical training until the First World War, joined the company as a partner. He had retired from the front because of a serious wound.
In April 1919 Gustav Mankenberg handed over his company to the two sons Ewald and Hellmuth. He lived on the factory premises until his villa was completely bombed and destroyed in August 1944 and died on February 2, 1945 in Greifswald at the age of 87. The economic crisis began in 1929: inflation and deflation presented the company with new challenges.
During the Second World War, the company in Stettin continued to manufacture steam fittings until the eviction order was issued on March 23, 1945. The company had to be closed immediately. The company management was only allowed to take the finished products with them; all machine tools were not allowed to be loaded. The way led the company management and numerous employees to the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, where rooms were rented from the stamping and enamelling plants.
In the summer of 1945, the Mankenberg company in Lübeck received permission to start manufacturing again. After initial provisional arrangements with operating rooms at five different locations, the company acquired the property at Brolingstrasse 51 in 1955 and built its own administration building on the factory site.
Dieter Mankenberg, a grandson of Gustav Mankenberg, who was later to take over the business, was killed in Hungary in January 1945. That is why Günther Weidner, Hellmuth Mankenberg's son-in-law, joined the company in 1954.
In 1957 the company Gustav Mankenberg Armaturenfabrik GmbH was founded in addition to the existing OHG. Günther Weidner received power of attorney. All employees were taken over by the GmbH.
In 1967 the Lübeck graduate engineer Hermann Thomsen became head of the technical office. At the beginning of the 1970s, he also appeared in the company as a partner and sole responsible managing director.
In 1992 the company moved to Spenglerstraße 99 in Lübeck's Roggenhorst industrial park.
In 2002, Axel Weidner, Gustav Mankenberg's great-grandson, became the sole managing director of Mankenberg GmbH.
In 2010 the Mankenberg company celebrated its 125th anniversary.
In 2014 Mankenberg GmbH founded the subsidiary OOO Mankenberg in Moscow.
In 2017, Stefan Nehlsen joined Mankenberg GmbH as a further managing director.
Awards
In 2010, Mankenberg was the winner of the Grand Prize for Medium -Sized Enterprises of the Oskar Patzelt Foundation as the best medium-sized company . The jury praised Mankenberg's overall development in the course of the previous year, the creation and safeguarding of jobs and training positions, modernization and innovation as well as the commitment in the region.
In 2011 Mankenberg became one of 365 places in the land of ideas . The initiative Germany - Land of Ideas , which is under the patronage of the Federal President , together with Deutsche Bank, awarded the prize to Mankenberg for the money box rally project.
In 2019 Mankenberg was nominated again for the Grand Prix for medium-sized companies.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h 75 years of Gustav Mankenberg Armaturenfabrik GmbH. Lübeck, Chronik, pp. 4–25.
- ↑ "A Niagara for All Occasions" GWF Extra 2008. Anniversary issue for the 150th anniversary of the Oldenbourg Verlag from July 1st, 2008
- ↑ See The Great Depression 1929-1932 , accessed on July 21, 2010
- ↑ 100 years of Gustav Mankenberg Armaturenfabrik GmbH. Lübeck, Chronik, p. 10.
- ^ Christian Risch: Valves from Lübeck for all of the world. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . dated June 13, 2010.
- ↑ Grand Prize for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: 2010 award winners from Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg. ( Memento from August 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Selected location 2011 Land of Ideas ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 8, 2011
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 19.2 " N , 10 ° 35 ′ 54.9" E